A Congressional budget deal expected this week might not be a grand bargain to solve the country’s long term fiscal woes, but it is largely what Americans want, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. The likely deal would ease the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, with more defense […] Read more »
Middle America assails Washington machine as indifferent and ‘above us’
America has met the enemy, and it is Washington. That was the message from a focus group of 11 Cincinnati-area voters, who issued a scathing and impassioned indictment Wednesday of Washington, D.C., and everyone in it — from lawmakers to the president and, most strikingly, a political system that makes […] Read more »
Hey, Pollsters!
Three topics I’d love to know more about: 1. How many people know that Healthcare.gov is Obamacare? Especially the people who actually use it. Also, the associated questions: how many know that it’s the Affordable Care Act, and how many know that there’s more to the ACA than the exchanges? […] Read more »
Obama’s Second-Term Swoon
A new set of polls this week suggests the continuing problems of the Affordable Care Act’s rollout have hit President Barack Obama’s presidency hard. A new Gallup poll has Mr. Obama at 40% approval. A CBS News poll has him at 37%. The administration’s troubles with the law’s implementation and […] Read more »
Obama Down But Congress Is Down Further
The bottom has fallen out for everyone in the nation’s political leadership. That’s the message from the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll, which shows that after a government shutdown, near-default on the federal debt, the calamitous debut of President Obama’s health care plan, and continued sluggishness in the economy, […] Read more »
Voters Don’t Want to See Anyone Win
The day after Election Day 2012, the worst fear for many Republicans was that the GOP’s problems—in terms of the overall party brand and its image among minorities, young people, women, and moderates—would not improve. The biggest concern for many Democrats was that their success had peaked with President Obama’s […] Read more »